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Cooking in the Danger Zone

2006
3 seasons
13 episodes
Documentary

Cooking in the Danger Zone is a documentary television series produced by the BBC and presented by Stefan Gates. In each film food writer Gates explores unusual food stories in some of the world’s more dangerous places. He uses food to explore and understand people’s culture and the challenges they face. He has eaten such obscure foods as rat in India, baby seal in the Arctic and radioactive soup in Chernobyl. Series three completed filming in October 2007 and it aired on BBC Two in March 2008.

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  • Ep 1

    1.Afghanistan

    8.0
    18-07-200660m

    This week food writer Stefan Gates cooks his way around Afghanistan, finding out how the country's reconstruction is going. He samples the testicles of the legendary fat-tailed sh...

  • Ep 2

    2.South Korea

    25-07-200660m

    Is there anything wrong with eating dogs? Stefan visits a farm where over 2,000 dogs are raised for their meat. He also picks up a few recipes from "Dr Dogmeat" and hears allegat...

  • Ep 3

    3.Uganda

    01-08-200660m

    In the third episode Stefan visits a camp for internally displaced people in war-torn Northern Uganda, to find out how people survive on meagre UN food rations. The UN gives them...

  • Ep 4

    4.Tonga and Fiji

    08-08-200660m

    Why are some people in the South Pacific eating themselves to death? In Tonga he finds the fattest people on earth - 91% are overweight - and goes kickboxing with the princess who...

  • Ep 5

    5.China

    15-08-200660m

    Finally, Stefan travels to China, finding out how the rapid pace of modernisation is changing the way people eat. He spends a day working at the Kung Fu fast food joint and sample...

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